League of Communists of Serbia

The League of Communists of Serbia (SKS) was the Serbian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990. In the late 1980s, the party fell under the leadership of Slobodan Milosevic, who supported Serbian nationalism. This led to growing ethnic tensions, which, in turn, led to the breakup of the federal party. In 1990, the SKS and several other minor parties merged into Milosevic's new Socialist Party of Serbia.